The card on right inside panel, reads: Pte, Percy Harold Bartrum, 23881 A Comp. 24th Rifle Battn. 3rd Echelon. Shot by enemy guard after escaping from P.O.W. Camp. Died March 31st., 1944 in Hospital Maggiore. Buried in Vercelli Cemetery, Vercelli, Italy. To live in our hearts is not to die. Dearly beloved youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenelg Bartrum, aged 26 years.

The front cover panel quotes the Ode of Remembrance. The fourth stanza of Laurence Binyon's poem "For the fallen"

The second inside panel has the verse: Happy and smiling, always content, Loved and respected wherever he went, Always thoughtful, always kind, A beautiful memory left behind.

Historical Notes

Private Percy Harold Bartrum, third son of Glenelg Harold Lennox Bartrum and Gertrude Bartrum, was reported missing in Greece on 28 May 1941.
Known as "Snowy" by his friends he was educated at Stanley Bay School. He played tennis and cricket at Stanley Bay.
Private Bartrum, a prisoner of war, was shot while attempting to escape.
Private Bartrum's elder brothers are in the forces. The eldest Ronald is in the Navy and the other Ivan [Ivan Lennox Bartrum] is a prisoner of war at Stalag 18A in Germany
Auckland Star, 24 July 1944, page 4